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Hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey makes £115million from this month’s coronavirus stock market crash – and now he’s betting on a recovery Crispin Odey revealed bets on plunging share prices had netted him a fortune Investor said his flagship hedge fund was down 12 per cent at end of February But huge falls in share … Read more
Netflix will cut streaming quality of its service in Europe for next 30 days to reduce strain on net during coronavirus crisis Netflix will reduce the quality of its streaming services over the next 30 days The EU today discouraged online media platforms from streaming movies in HD Web giants have increasingly supplied film lovers … Read more
European leaders ‘underestimated’ the impact of coronavirus, the EU’s top official admitted today as the bloc agreed to shut its borders. Ursula von der Leyen said that ‘measures which seemed drastic two or three weeks ago need to be taken now’ as much of the continent goes into lockdown. The European Commission chief admitted that … Read more
British nationals will be banned from France if Boris Johnson does not adopt the same coronavirus policies as the European Union, the French Prime Minister warned tonight. During a live TV address from Paris on Tuesday evening, Edouard Philippe expressed extreme frustration that Britain was lagging behind in the ‘war’ against the deadly illness which … Read more
EU leaders agree to shut down travel into the bloc for 30 days in a bid to stem coronavirus pandemic – as queues of up to 40 miles form at borders WITHIN the continent amid stringent new controls Most foreigners will be banned from entering EU for the next 30 days EU Commission president Ursula von … Read more
Thousands of people including British travellers were fleeing Paris today as the French capital prepared to go into full Coronavirus lockdown. Huge queues were building up at railway and coach station before draconian new measures came into force at midday on Tuesday. Despite government pleas to ‘stay at home’, rail operator SNCF reported large numbers … Read more
Which European countries are in the Schengen free-travel area? The 26 Schengen countries are: Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland European countries have started shutting their borders, even within the Schengen zone, with France … Read more
EU’s coronavirus lockdown: European countries are poised to BAN Britons and other ‘third-party travellers’ from entering 26-state Schengen zone amid coronavirus crisis Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a proposed ban all non-essential travel The 26-nation Schengen free travel area locked down to outsiders for 30 days She said health care systems were under massive pressure … Read more
President Tayyip Erdogan said today he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkey’s border into Greece before advising Athens ‘these people won’t stay in Greece’ and to ‘let them pass into other European countries’. Tens of thousands of migrants have been trying to get into Greece, a European Union member state, since Turkey said on … Read more
Next to a heap of rotting rubbish lies a dead puppy covered in flies. The stench is overwhelming. Oblivious, the little Syrian girl with pigtails, gold dangly earrings, and mud streaked across her forehead, picks up the bread roll she has dropped on the ground and bites into it hungrily. It is breakfast time on … Read more